Improvement in gas-burners for removing paint



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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

SAMUEL Gr. REED, OF WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAS-B-URNERS FOR REMOVING PAINT.

Sprciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. IGLLQIS, dated June 8, 187 5; application filed April 14, 1875.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. REED, of Wellesley, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Gas-Burner for Removing Paint, of which the following` is a specification:

This invention relates to an improvement in gasburners specially adapted to burn or remove paint from cars, buildings, or wherever it is desired to remove paint.

Heretofore paint has been burned off by means of burners throwing outasubstantially round iiame, and used singly or placed at some distance apart, so much so that portions of the surface from which paint was to be removed, and between thebnrners was not sufliciently hot to cause the paint to burn or scale off readily, and the burners had to be moved over and over the car or other painted article, and the flame comin g, subsequently,in attempting to burn the paint left unburned, between the rows of iiame against portions of wood with paint sufficiently burned orf, has been found to be injurious to the wood.

The object of this invention is to provide a continuous iiat sheet of dame which can be applied evenly to the surface from which the paint is to be removed; and the invention consists in one or more fiat-mouthed burners arranged side by side, and so as to cause the flames to meet, forming a single wide flame. The drawing shows my improved gas-burner in side elevation, and with oneof the burners in section. The gas is led from a suitable supplying-source through a pipe, a, into chamber b, on whchlare screw-threaded projections c adapted to receive the ends of the threaded cocks d, having keys e, and leading from which are pipes or plugs j' having air-passages g, and a central gaspassage, lL, all thepassages debouching into a chamber, i', of the burner-tube j having the flattened end lo. These ends la are placed substantially in contact with each other with their flattened openings in line, or so as to afford a broad con- SAMUEL G. REED.

Witnesses:

G. W. GREGORY, S. B. KIDDER. 

